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the effect was similar in that the vast majority of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to the 1960s were from the British Isle o...

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...

weapons of mass destruction that are the center of world controversy today reflect that fact. These weapons do exist and they exi...

Tylor asserts that in order to assess a culture, one must approach it from an objective standpoint: if one does not do so, ones ow...

reactions and evolution are rooted in the desire for individuality, which represents to Huck Finn and to Mark Twain, saying and do...

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

to the plays because they were written during the time of the British Commonwealth, a time when the very nation has lost its Empir...

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

to escape persecution and established colonies in North America. This paper considers a different aspect of the story: what happen...

to reform the church in England; the story of the Puritans efforts and their emigration to North America is well known. This paper...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...

This paper seeks to drill home the message that strep throat and scarlet fever are serious illnesses and need to be treated by phy...

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

who were practicing at the time, found that they could no less follow the "popish trapping" brought about by the King and the Chur...

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

similar theme: Though hast cast off and put us to shame...and has scattered us among the heathen."2 In this simple illustration ...

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

Rowlandsons tale is subdivided into twenty removes, which are a combination of her own harrowing experiences as an Indian captive,...

"this great king will have many stewards, counting himself more honored in dispensing his gifts to man by man, than if he did it b...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

of God resides in all people, thus resulting in fundamental human goodness (Wohlpart, 2004). However, it is important to note tha...

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

Age discrimination has become more than a minor inconvenience throughout the twentieth century (Rupp et al, 2006); indeed, the iss...

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

people into the faith was unsurpassed. But the Puritans had come to the New World to escape religion (Catholic) persecution and to...